books.google.co.uk - This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized vitality of musical theatre and other kinds of spectacle in Britain itself, and also the flourishing concert life of the period, indicates a means of defining tradition...https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Europe_Empire_and_Spectacle_in_Nineteent.html?id=gFWVWesJcTIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEurope, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-century British Music